I do not see whether Lance Armstrong used performance enhancing drugs or not detracts in any way from his work with and for the Livestrong foundation. That makes him a hero. You are a hero for your work with people entangled in the grip of addiction.

Cycling at that level has always been among the cyclists, "what ever it takes to finish the tour". The cyclists have always used anything they could to just get through it. Every guy who finished on the podium in Armstrong's years of winning the tour was convicted of using performance enhancing drugs. Many of those people were estimable fellows. It was just part of what you did to make it in the pro peleton. I believe that the sponsers, coaches and whole industry knew it or turned a blind eye to it. Now we hear all this pontificating about it. Baseball was happy to have Sammy Sousa and Mark McGuire put fannys in the seats during the steroid era. Later, baseball was shocked, shocked that the sport was not clean. Give me a break. You put an athelete in a position that if they want to compete at the top level, they have to take the stuff and then the power structure blames them for doing so later on. It is hypocrisy.